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• Anna Louise Wegloop, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Gunter OVERHOFF, (D) († 2011)
• Beniout Zonneveld, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Cornelis (Cees) de Boer, Grootebroek († 2025)
• Cornelis de Boer, Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2025)
• Cornelis Leendert († 2009)
• Harm Nienhuis, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Gertie Schiffeleers, Maastricht
• Catharina Johanna (Tiny) de Rond, ,,, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 2013)
• Hugo JP DESWERT, Antwerpen († 2018)

• Abraham Pampel (54), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Abel Zwaneveld (71), Groningen
• Anna Juliana Evers (83), Bierbeek
• Agnes van de Venne (77), Echt
• Adriana Lindhout (78), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• (64), Dispatch, Smith County, Kansas, VS
• Haak (0), Delft, Holland
• Adrianus Verschuren (43), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Mozes Pampel (54), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anthonius Ouwendijk (31), Gouda Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1939 » Thomas McGuane, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Tom Hayden, American activist and politician († 2016)
• 1940 » David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1940 » Donna Mills, American actress and producer
• 1941 » J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter († 1991)
• 1941 » J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2015)
• 1941 » Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China
• 1941 » Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer († 1988)
• 1942 » Anna Carteret, English actress
• 1943 » John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State

• 1936 » Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1937 » Hugh Thackeray Turner, English architect and painter (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1941 » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
• 1945 » Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
• 1951 » Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (b. 1882)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
• January 19 » World War II: HMSGreyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64km) northeast of Falkonera.
• April 1 » A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
• April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
• June 5 » World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
• August 29 » World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
• December 16 » World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.

The temperature on December 11, 1941 was between 7.2 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.